Rick Van Lieshout
Chief Technology Officer at Mastermindzh.com
North Brabant, Netherlands
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Top SchoolRick Van Lieshout is a pragmatic CTO with 11 years of hands-on software engineering experience who blends minimalistic, Linux-minded engineering with people-first leadership to accelerate team growth and business outcomes. Currently leading technology at Frontliners, he remains an active developer and open-source contributor—examples include enhancing the Tidal Hi‑Fi Electron app with hotkeys, media key integration and improved UX. His background spans full-stack C# and Angular work, architecture roles, and practical infra projects using Elasticsearch and RabbitMQ, giving him a strong track record of turning legacy constraints into reliable product features. Based in North Brabant, he also runs a technical blog and has a history of grassroots entrepreneurship and community moderation, reflecting a long-term commitment to knowledge sharing and doing things right.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Havo, Havo, Havo, Havo at Maasland collegeHBO, Computer and Information Sciences, General, HBO, Computer and Information Sciences, General at Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen
English, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
javascript10
user-interface10
electron10
hotkeys9
css8
html8
webapi7
browser6
php6
google-chrome6
docker6
vue6
jetbrains-ides6
intellij-idea6
java6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Mastermindzh/tidal-hifi
Sep 2019 - Jan 2023
The web version of Tidal running in electron with hifi support thanks to widevine.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:59 releases, 52 reviews, 90 commits in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Rick primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and adding functionality to the Tidal Hi-Fi web application. They implemented hotkey support for improved usability, as well as added media key integration for playback control and notification features. The commits demonstrate work on settings configuration and integrations to add more value to the user experience.
electronhifilinuxtidalwidevine
Inforitnl/mongo-seed-container
Apr 2020 - Jul 2023
A container to seed mongo databases
Contributions:2 reviews, 7 PRs, 10 pushes in 3 years 3 months
mongodockerdatabasesseednodejs
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